SARRAUTE, NATHALIE & JOLAS, MARIA (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, octavo, blue light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 141pp, VG (moderate discolouration to spine, light creasing & chafing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, owner's name in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: John Calder 1965

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ENGLISH, ISOBEL

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PUBLISHER: Andre Deutsch 1956

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READ, PIERS PAUL

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PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1997

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FRANCIS, DICK

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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1993

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IHIMAERA, WITI

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PUBLISHER: Reed 2007

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CROMPTON, RICHMAL & ROBERTS, LUNT (Illus)

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PUBLISHER: Dymock's Book Arcade 1949

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AMIS, HERBERT

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PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1991

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GREENE, GRAHAM

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PUBLISHER: Bodley Head 1982

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PORTER, HENRY

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PUBLISHER: Orion 1999

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ABLEMAN, PAUL

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PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1968

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BRUCE, MARY GRANT & CAMPBELL, J. F. (Illus)

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PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & Co 1939

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MELVILLE-ROSS, ANTONY

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PUBLISHER: Collins 1979

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VASQUEZ, JUAN GABRIEL & McLEAN, ANNE (Trans)

UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, FIRST EDITION, super octavo, illus light card covers, red lettering to spine, 298pp, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2012

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MCDONALD, IAN

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PUBLISHER: Pyr/Prometheus Books 2010

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MELVILLE, HERMAN

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PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1923

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GATTIS, RYAN

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AUSTER, PAUL

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PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber 2003

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PETROWSKAJA, KATJA

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PUBLISHER: 4th Estate 2018

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GLADSTONE, WAYNE

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PUBLISHER: Thomas Dunne Books 2014

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KERR, BOB & BALLANTYNE, STEPHEN

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PUBLISHER: William Collins 1982

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